can we route all api call to ip adress instead of localhost

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User190551098 posted

can we route all api call to ip adress instead of localhost

Answer 1

User753101303 posted

Hi,

The purpose being? You want to use 127.0.0.1 rather than localhost? Try https://cyanbyfuchsia.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/make-iis-express-works-with-http127-0-0-1/

In short when an http query is received by a web server, the web server is trying to find the 'first site that is matching::
- the ip address
- the "host header name" ie "localhost" or "site.company.com"
- the port

Using the hiost header name is convenient as it allows to easily have multiple sites with a single IP address.